2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (785+ words) "Duke's proposal doesn't come close and must be rejected." A dispute over Duke Energy Florida's proposed tariff on data centers is emerging as an early test of whether legislators will protect households from rising energy costs, according to The Apopka…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (466+ words) "That's an expensive water heater but I'd expect [the] cost to be in the $3k-$4k range." When replacing a home appliance, getting just one more quote can make a big difference. This was on full display for one Charlotte-area homeowner weighing…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (406+ words) "The real risks are mechanical: tarps and ropes dragged across the array." When a homeowner with rooftop solar and home batteries turned to Tesla for advice on how to prepare the system for a termite fumigation, they received conflicting information....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (161+ words) The point of those upgrades is to prevent millions of outage minutes each year. A new battery microgrid in Trenton, Florida, could keep the lights on for 1,500 customers when the main grid goes down. For residents in hurricane-prone parts of…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (477+ words) "Was is worth it? Yes, 100%." A Texas homeowner is celebrating a major clean energy milestone after paying off a large rooftop solar system while also building up a negative electric balance. According to a Reddit post, the homeowner has a…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (759+ words) "It's possible you've lost a string. Maybe one of the breakers has tripped." After a rooftop solar system that had kept power costs nearly at zero seemed to drop to about half its usual output, a California homeowner ended up…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (707+ words) "Am I missing something?" A fan of FranklinWH home-energy products sparked a debate after arguing that all-in-one home batteries may make setup easier today while creating maintenance problems later. They were not criticizing the company's overall quality; it was about…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (514+ words) "You could be leaving a lot of wasted energy on the table." A frustrated Enphase owner says that just a few hours of free training helped him do what an installer had not: update his solar-plus-battery system, fix key settings,…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (687+ words) "Make sure the system is warrantied so you are not the first call down the road." Someone who was laid off from a software engineering job said in a Reddit post that after learning the commercial solar business from the…...